​Mark Karpeles, CEO of the now-defunct Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange, was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court. The court found him guilty of forging documents but found him not guilty of embezzlement. He received a suspended prison sentence of two and a half years.

The board of directors of the Thai SEC has approved the country’s first portal for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICO portals help to conduct a comprehensive review, verify the correct source codes of contracts and create a "know your customer" process, as reported by the informational edition Bangkok Post.